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Bar Louie has opened up at Peninsula Town Center. Born in Chicago and now based in Texas, the restaurant-bar chain has a sophisticated look and feel about it. Tables and chairs are nicely spaced to allow guests to move about, and the music and TV screens above the center bar don’t overwhelm the large room. “We consider ourselves a local bar with hand-crafted cocktails, American food and a downtown city atmosphere,” says general manager Mike Mariano. Night-crawlers will be happy to know that Bar Louie stays open until 2 a.m. nightly, and the kitchen serves until 1:30 a.m. There's a nice lineup of specialty drinks and martinis. The menu features small plates,...

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Bar Louie has opened up at Peninsula Town Center.Born in Chicago and now based in Texas, the restaurant-bar chain has a sophisticated look and feel about it. Tables and chairs are nicely spaced to allow guests to move about, and the music and TV...

Peninsula Town Center has signed up Bar Louie as a new tenant. The casual, urban-style eatery will be arriving this summer in the location formerly occupied by bd's Mongolian Grill.The majority of Bar Louie's locations are in the Chicago and Milwaukee...

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Lady Gaga and longtime beau Taylor Kinney are engaged to be married, the Los Angeles Times has confirmed.
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Of course your people are going to exercise.
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The owners, led by Edward McCarthy,...

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The night's festivities were decidedly adult.
As local artists showed participants how to paint...

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The company that won the bid, Four Corners Tavern Group, will also run a kiosk near...

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